A man was convicted yesterday of the 2010 rape of a 17-year-old girl and her mother and robbing them afterwards. The jury deliberated for less than a day.

Lamar G. Fields, 42, who has ties to Jersey City and New York, was found guilty of multiple aggravated sexual assaults, aggravated sexual assaults during a felony, weapon offenses, two counts of robbery, child abuse, burglary and terroristic threats stemming from the Sept. 24, 2010 early-morning attack.

“The state and the victims are pleased with the jury’s verdict,” Hudson County Assistant Prosecutor Najma Rana said in a statement. “This was a brutal crime against a mother and daughter and we’re all gratified that justice has been served.”

As the jury foreman read out the verdicts, the two victims exhaled in a sigh of relief, while Fields flashed a peace sign and blew a kiss in the direction of a Jersey Journal photographer.

Fields, who now faces 60 years in prison, was convicted, by a jury of seven women and five men, of entering the Bramhall Avenue home on Sept. 24 through the back door, where the 17-year-old girl was in the kitchen making a sandwich.

According to testimony from the girl, Fields demanded money, and when she began to scream he forced her to the floor, straddled her and raised a fork he grabbed from the counter and threatened her.

The 65-year-old mother, hearing the screams from her second floor bedroom, ran into the kitchen to see a man she identified as Fields on top of her daughter.

Fields then forced the two women into the living room where he made them undress, making the mother perform a sexual act on him before taking them upstairs to the daughter’s bedroom where he continued the brutal attack.

The attack lasted for approximately 30 minutes, where Fields alternated between the two women, supposedly telling the mother to, “show her (the daughter) how it’s done.”

After the attack, Fields asked the women for possessions and took a laptop, a cell phone and a digital camera before telling the victims that he would murder them if they told anyone.

Fields was acquitted of criminal restraint and using the fork as a weapon against the mother.

During the three-day trial, jurors heard testimony from a number of witnesses including gut-wrenching accounts of the attack from both the mother and the daughter.

A fingerprint lifted from the back screen door that matched Fields was introduced as evidence, and while Fields’ attorney, James Lisa, argued that there were no prints lifted from within the house to place his client inside, an alibi was never presented.

“We’re going to explore our options in regards to an appeal,” Lisa told The Jersey Journal after the verdict.

After the verdict, Rana asked Theemling to revoke Fields' bail, which was done.

A tentative sentencing date has been set for April 19, and Fields may be eligible for an extended sentence as he is a persistent offender, according to Deputy First Assistant Prosecutor Debra Simon.

According to public documents, Fields' was found guilty of theft by unlawful taking in 1991, a conviction that resulted in him serving 228 days in jail and being placed on three years probation. He was also found guilty of burglary in 2007, which resulted in 90 days in jail and three years
probation.

Fields also has an open charge relating to a Sept. 3, 2010 attack where he allegedly raped another woman inside her Kennedy Boulevard home in Jersey City at knifepoint.